SOCIAL LANDSCAPE
A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BRITAIN, 1760-1950, by Pauline Gregg; ey = Harrap and Co. Ltd., English price, 18/-. R. GREGG is a specialist in the details of history, whose purpose is not to interpret the sequence of events but to record facts. As a report on. conditions ruling in Britain from 1760
to 1950 her book is admirably comprehensive and will no doubt prove invaluable as a guide to original sources for students who specialise on some particular topic. * Part I traces the evolution of cottage industry towards industrial capitalism, and goes on to describe the new methods of transport brought into being by this transition. Since social and economic questions can never be entirely separated from politics, there are chapters on the struggle of the working classes to preserve themselves against the dominance and oppression of a system that augmented so rapidly as to grow beyond the control of scarcely comprehending statesmen. A final chapter in this section, entitled "The Age of the Middle Classes," deals with philosophy, art and literature as affected by the industrial revolution up to the year 1850. Parts 2 and 3"The Rise of the Working Classes" and "A Century of Social Reform" — are planned on similar lines. An epilogue integrates the whole work and foreshadows the coming of a new age dependent for its welfare on what use shall be made of a new and stupendous source of power. To read this book of 550 pages from cover to cover is a salutary labour, but one that wearies the mind; to have it on one’s shelves for purposes of reference will be a comfort in time of uncertainty
or failing memory. _
R. M.
Burdon
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 12
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283SOCIAL LANDSCAPE New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 12
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